Fiction Writing: From Self-Published To Published

Critical Lessons From One Author’s Journey

What you’ll learn
How to generate story ideas using everyday situations.
How to summarize your story in just a sentence or two.
How to identify the important factors publishers consider about you beyond your story.
How to world-build by creating fictional maps for your story.
Requirements
This course is for anyone who wants to understand fiction writing, self-publishing and the journey to getting published by an independent press.
Description
Alen Rio is a SciFi/Fantasy author. Alen trained for more than fifteen years in martial arts. This training, combined with his love of fantastic adventure, greatly influenced his writing. He enjoys writing SciFi, especially dystopian stories, near future, and fantasy.His novel RISING won the 2015 Filipino ReaderCon award for Best Fiction in English.He wrote this course to share critical lessons he learned from writing as a hobby to self-publishing novels and finally to being signed by a publisher. This course provides context to his journey that many self-published authors will be familiar with. He shares key moments in his timeline that inspired him to keep going. Throughout the course he will discuss critical skills and knowledge he obtain along the way. Some of these skills are directly related to the craft of writing. Others are in line with how to connect and get noticed by publishers. While he emphasis the importance of writing, equally important are the items that all publishers want to see beyond the story. The author will share his techniques on world building, brainstorming, and summarizing stories. He will share his experiences with publishers and the critical tasks they want to see authors doing, before the story is even accepted. There are many pitfalls along the way on the writing journey. Alen Rio freely shares his own personal story as it will serve as a case study for those who are looking to begin their own writing journey.Ideally this course is best for early or beginner level speculative and SciFi/Fantasy authors. The course is for the other 99% who are still on the journey, like Alen Rio, where it’s important to recognize modest success but even more important to keep going and never give up.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Overview

Lecture 2 Focus on Writing

Lecture 3 Turn off Your Editor

Lecture 4 Build a Habit

Lecture 5 Focus on the Real Goal & What is Attractive to Publishers

Lecture 6 The Writing Craft

Lecture 7 World Building with Maps

Lecture 8 Closing

This course is for new and beginner level fiction writers. It will be especially useful for fiction writers who write in the speculative, SciFi/Fantasy, and commercial genres. This course will share the author’s personal journey including struggles, accomplishments, and most importantly lessons learned along the way. There is no substitute for experience yet this course will share the author’s experience so students can benefit on their own creative writing and publishing journey..